EPL Gossip Thursday April 30th
Everton are lining up a summer bid for Newcastle striker Michael Owen with the former England star prepared for a cut in his £100,000-a-week wages . (Daily Express)
Made mention of this last month how Michael Owen would be a great fit for Everton. With Jo being outside of Everton’s price range, replacing him with Owen who grew up as an Everton fan would be a great replacement.
Manchester City are in talks with Lisbon’s 22-year-old midfielder Miguel Veloso over a £15m move. (The Sun, The Times)
Usually I’d say forget about signing playing from Barcelona, Manchester City should look to sign a player like Miguel Veloso. Then again Manchester City has already spent a boat load of money on Nigel de Jong and Vincent Kompany who each can play in the holding midfielder role.
Liverpool are considering a bid to sign Marseille skipper Lorik Cana as back-up for Xabi Alonso, who could be sold in the summer. (Daily Mirror)
I’m sure most of this is press talk but I just can’t see why Liverpool would sell Xabi Alonso. Here you have a player who can play for any team in the world, who never complains and willingly plays second fiddle to Gerrard and Torres in the Liverpool setup.
Barcelona are furious with the conduct of Chelsea’s players following the 0-0 Champions League draw at the Nou Camp.
Xavi says: “There was a team that wanted to play and there was a team that didn’t.” Referee Wolfgang Stark also comes under fire for snubbing a penalty and failing to award cards for bad tackles. “It’s an outrage. There were scandalous incidents,” Xavi adds. (Various)
What were Barcelona expecting? Chelsea must of saw how Barcelona blew out Bayern Munich in the first half. There was no way Chelsea was going to take that chance playing with Barcelona at the Camp Nou. On the other hand, the next time Chelsea complains about a team playing negative football someone should point out their performance against Barcelona.
Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill thinks Rangers and Celtic players would become “monumental” if their teams were involved in a future two-tier Premier League in England. (Daily Record)
This talk of Rangers and Celtic joining the EPL always comes about every couple of years. Can’t see it happening for two reasons. 1) It will kill the rest of Scottish football so there will be an uproar over that. More importantly 2) There is no way two teams are going to make way to allow Rangers and Celtic in the EPL and even if they expand the league, teams would still be unhappy with a reduced share of the TV revenues.